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Childhood at Brindabella - My First Ten Years by Miles Franklin
Category: Biography
This delightful autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin's first ten years, spent partly on her parent's station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present day Canberra. It is a world of the high places and graceful living which she portrayed in her novels, here recaptured with ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Trapped on her parents' farm in the Australian outback, ebullient sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. She longs for a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all she longs to do great things. Sudde ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Category: Fiction | Series: Broadview Editions
Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. My Br ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Category: Audio
"I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear." With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary "My Brilliant Career" when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to "Jane Eyre." But the ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin; Bogdan Meunier (Editor)
Category: Classics
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin There's something wild in this ''picture of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of New South Wales''. Banned by the author herself until ten years after her death in 1954, this vivid Australian classic was originally published in Edi ...Show more
My Brilliant Career & My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
Category: Classics
'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound therefore on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and r ...Show more
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics by Miles Franklin
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!" Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tal ...Show more
My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and ...Show more
My Career Goes Bung by Franklin Miles
Category: Classics
'Sybylla, with her touching charm, her impetuosity, her inappropriateness, ranks with the great romantic figures of the nineteenth century.' - The London Times In this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older ...Show more
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